An anthology of 220 Carpatho-Rusyn spiritual songs found in 16 nineteenth-century handwritten collections. The content, collected during the author’s scholarly expeditions to the Hungarian Kingdom, is divided in two sections by geographic origin, i.e. northern (Carpathian Rus’) or southern Hungary (Bačka and Srim).

The spiritual songs provided in this work were used in various religious holidays and rites. The songs were largely created in the 17th and 18th centuries. Many such songs were originally folk renditions of printed Church Slavonic religious poems that carried on in popular manuscript copies. Some of the manuscripts obtained by the author had been previously described by Ivan Franko. The publication also contains a brief description of Rusyn “funeral games”.